Proportion Quotes

837 quotes by 618 authors

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride. — Claude Bernard
... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always,… — Julia Cameron
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion. — William C. Bryant
Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it. — Paul de Rapin
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free. — Thomas Jefferson
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. — Denis Waitley
The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship. — Brian Tracy
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They… — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
Supposing the Mother Earth was very hot like the sun, there would have been no growth, or it was cold like moon, there would have… — Nirmala Srivastava
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the… — John Jay Chapman
The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith,… — Wallace D. Wattles
What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty… — John Ruskin
Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom. — Thomas Merton
Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside. — Zero Mostel
People have judged you; you have accepted their idea without any scrutiny. And you are suffering from all kinds of people's judgments, and you are… — Rajneesh
In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize… — E. O. Wilson
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter,… — William Hazlitt
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one… — Nikola Tesla
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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